Advocacy
Finding the Right Messenger for Your Message
Trusted messengers are important to the success of any advocacy campaign. Here are eight archetypes and four audience contexts to help organizers find the right ones.
Articles P910
Social Enterprise
How Public Procurement Can Spur the Social Economy
European governments purchase more than €2 trillion of goods and services annually, and more of that spending is being done in a socially responsible manner.
Excerpt
Business
Fair Chance Employment
An excerpt from Untapped Talent explains how second chance hiring works for both businesses and communities.
Human Rights
The ‘Not Here’ Syndrome
Racism denial, workplace inequity, and the futility of speaking out.
Health
It Takes a Multigenerational Village to Raise Foster Kids
Planned, intergenerational communities can help support families raising foster children, as well as youth and elders seeking low-income housing and community.
Advocacy
Measuring Transformational Impact in Human Rights Advocacy
While traditional scientific methods are not well suited for assessing advocacy, evaluation is necessary for making informed decisions about what meaningful and realistic outcomes to seek from human rights advocacy.
Technology
The Social Economy and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Why the social economy needs to step up and shape technological development to address social needs, and five strategies to get there.
Human Rights
Dignity Is the Bedrock for Workplace Belonging
A new framework identifies racial harms and other forms of discrimination in order to create work environments where everyone feels they belong. Part of an in-depth series that explains how racism operates within organizations.
IN-DEPTH SERIES
This Is What Racism Looks Like
This series aims to explain how racism operates within organizations and create conversation about racial justice, dignity, and belonging.
Philanthropy & Funding
Philanthropy’s Problem With Single-Issue Solutions
Why more funders need to address multiple issues simultaneously, and what the only US foundation currently funding intergenerational programs has learned from the approach.